On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Are you talking about the official Opensol-11 install iso or something > else? The official 2008.11 LiveCD has the tool on the default desktop as an icon.
> >> A big issue with running a VM is that ZFS prefers direct access to storage. > > What effect does this preferance have? Does it perform badly when it > does not have direct access to storage? Are the virtual disks > supplied by vmware less functional in some way? I would expect pretty bad performance adding VMWare as a layer in between ZFS and your block devices. ZFS documentation specifically advises against abstracting block devices whenever possible. Since ZFS is trying to checksum blocks, the fewer abstraction layers you have in between ZFS and spinning rust, the less points of error/failure. > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
